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Image: Paul Karabinos ⧉
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Uploaded: 14 Oct 2020
Last Updated: 14 Oct 2020

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Field of view is 7.5 by 12.7 mm. Plane polarized light. Crossed polars: https://viewer.gigamacro.com/view/ClbI3ChLQU4tVgad Taken with the automated imaging system at Williams College. A medium-grained, porphyritic basalt containing phenocrysts, of colorless olivine and redbrown clinopyroxene in a variolitic matrix of intergrown plagioclase and clinopyroxene (fig. 17). In the matrix, the intergrown plagioclase and pyroxene form bundles radiating from a common nucleus. Rock 12002 is a low-Ti basalt from the Apollo 12 mission. https://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/education/lpetss/12002.cfm